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- Celebrities on Twitter: The good the bad and the illiterate (Daily Telegraph)
Twitter the microblogging website that allows users to post 140word "tweets" about what they are doing is attracting a growing number of celebrities. Here's our guide to who you should be following and the attentionseeking bores you should avoid.
- Try that one on for size: Al-Zaidi puts Iraq back on the map - Online Journal
I can’t lie. I’ve watched Iraqi journalist Montather Al-Zaidi whip those two shoes past George W. Bush’s head more times than I can count. I loved it; I even got into the corny jokes about the Red Sox drafting Al-Zaidi in the spring (cementing ...
- Rita Joe’s poetry lives on - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Rita Joe’s poetry lives onTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 53 minutes agoJoe’s persona also recalls, "Prayers and song / Memories told to the young / When all life was Inua’kis (Indians)." The last stanza is devastating: "It will ...
- Supposedly Endless Summer - San Diego Reader
Supposedly Endless SummerSan Diego Reader, CA - 4 hours agoLess is more, and I’m going to aim for but never quite hit poetry. Likely between neither Tennyson, Eliot, nor cummings. And, of course, none. ...
- Great songs stick with a listener (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Some songs make young girls cry. Other songs, sung blue, everybody knows. There are songs that make you want to dance, sad songs that say so much, silly love songs. But what makes a song memorable?
- Influential books, poetry - Etownian
EtownianInfluential books, poetryEtownian, PA - 2 hours agoThe family traditions that these books and poems create make a lasting impression on children. Silverstein’s and Brett’s books had a large impact on ...
- Scared straight -- by aliens:Remake of 'The Day the Earth Stood Still ... - Kalamazoo Gazette
Klaatu's (Keanu Reeves) mission on Earth is tied to the spheres that have also arrived on the planet, in "The Day the Earth Stood Still." A couple of weeks ago, I received an e-mail from the publicity people at Twentieth Century Fox. The provocative ...
- Words Take Wing: Children's Poet to Speak - UC Davis
Jan. 28, Wednesday -- Francisco X. Alarcón, award-winning poet, children's author and professor of Spanish and classics at UC Davis, will share a glimpse into the art of crafting words and images that seize our hearts and minds at 10:30 a.m. and ...
- Marrying memory to the creative impulse - Boston Globe
A life story, Joseph Conrad has been quoted as saying, may be summarized on a matchbook: He was born, he suffered, he died. The rest is elaboration. In 1988, at 41, Floyd Skloot contracted a brain virus. The illness left him, as he puts it in "The ...
- You won’t be averse to these poets - Kansas City Star
You won’t be averse to these poetsKansas City Star, MO - 3 hours agoHer poems are the kind that delve into daily lives but always find some kind of magic and loss in the mundane. Her work has appeared frequently in the ...
- Denison professor was 'dear friend,' colleagues say (Newark Advocate)
NEWARK — Eduardo "Edo" Jaramillo-Zuluaga, 51, was a valued member of the Denison University faculty, a good friend and something of a poet, friends and colleagues said Wednesday.
- Winners in the haikus-about-Joe contest - Trading Markets (press release)
Winners in the haikus-about-Joe contestTrading Markets (press release), CA - 4 minutes ago... we sent a stack of them for her charming teacher's classroom library, too) Enjo -- er, enjoy the poetry, then go online to read some more at www. ...
- Vote pro-life, not for Obama - La Crosse Tribune
How can we consider voting for a candidate who is not pro-life? A candidate who believes it’s OK to kill a child in the last three months of life in the womb. To believe it is OK to suck the brains out of a partially born child as it comes out of ...
- New boutique hotel opens in South Austin - Bizjournals.com
New boutique hotel opens in South AustinBizjournals.com, NC - 41 minutes agoThe luxury hotel, named after the patron saint of music and poetry, is comprised of a Victorian mansion and modern bungalows, located a few blocks east of ...
- Bush Congratulates Krugman - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsBush Congratulates KrugmanNew York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
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